“I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
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American novelist and screenwriter 1942Related quotes
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And I’m not afraid of the Patchwork Man”
Richard K. Morgan book Altered Carbon
Source: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 23 (p. 295)
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted and paraphrased in "Clemente 'Sick,' That's Bad News to NL Hurlers" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/62573816/ by Lou Prato (AP), in The Warren Times Mirror (Tuesday, June 5, 1962), p. 12 <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1962</big> <br class="br">Context: “I sick, I have nervous stomach. I can hardly eat. I’m taking lot of vitamins and I’m getting stronger. But I still sick.” [... ] Clemente said he’s been bothered by stomach trouble since last August. "During the winter I feel real bad. I lost 18 pounds but I’ve picked my weight back up a little since then. I don’t feel too strong and sometimes when I run I get short of breath. Sometime I feel good and sometime I don’t feel like playing ball at all.” [... ] “If I get a little stronger, I hit with more power and I help the club more.”
“I’m not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.”
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker
As quoted in Hitchcock (revised edition 1985) by François Truffaut, p. 109 http://books.google.com/books?id=NnE_sPb3XBQC&q=%22I'm+not+against+the+police+I'm+just+afraid+of+them%22&pg=PA109#v=onepage.
